... Lobster 61 evaluate without reading the local media, which I can't do. However, the cable includes the story of the Sandinistas and the cocaine trade, and this we know something about. This is the version in the cable. 'Interior Minister Tomas Borge and his subordinates went so far as to assist Escobar with the loading and unloading of drugs onto his airplanes in Nicaragua. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) managed to place a hidden camera on one of Escobar's airplanes and obtained film of Escobar and Ministry of the Interior officials loading cocaine onto one of Escobar's planes at Managua's international airport. CBS news later broadcast the film and the entire story of Escobar- Ortega-FSLN ...

... Leon Brittan taking over at the Home Office. So, yet again, we have an episode in which the 'cranks' seem to have been on the right scent at the time, with solid leads, and no-one took the blindest bit of notice because it appeared to be as loony as the Queen-is-a -drugs-kingpin nonsense. Well, we're not laughing now. The abuses of 'conspiracy' From time to time, self-professed rationalists deign to examine the phenomenon of conspiracy theories, usually denouncing them as products of uneducated minds. The latest example of this to have floated under my nose appeared in the Scientific American in December, in ...

... of disastrous wrong turnings. But if everything since 1917 has been a mistake, what is left? The church and Russian culture, chiefly its literature; and the claim that Russia is now a leader of Christianity against the decadence of Western social liberalism (hence the anti-PC stance of the current regime).1 'Promotion of illegal drugs and of alcoholism, degenerative art, prostitution, propaganda of homosexuality and paedophilia, offences against religious and national feelings are those openly anti- national and anti-social manifestations of the perverse liberalism that should be banned unconditionally. ' (p . 1 This is discussed in a very interesting essay about contemporary Russia, 'Putinism and the Anti ...

... with microwave radiation and may have led to the death of two US ambassadors and illnesses amongst Embassy staff. The staff were fed a cover story about a viral study and were not told 7 My guess about MKULTRA is that after the Senator Church hearings the funding shifted to countries with a more relaxed legal framework. The tricks, concern with drugs and hypnosis, continued, but there may have been a shift towards advanced electronics. For a classic statement of these types of projects see: Albert Biderman and Herbert Zimmer, The Manipulation of Human Behavior (NY: Wiley, 1961). 8 Opening Pandora's Box (original), BFI National Archive: 184904 Central Independent Television 1984 ...

... The original 'Asian Pivot' Everything seemed brilliant until 1 October 1949 when the US regime had to accept the defeat of its client army under the warlord Chiang-Kai-Shek. All of a sudden, the US had 'lost China'. The so-called China Lobby – a coalition of banking, contraband (e .g . drugs) and feudal military interests, exemplified by former colonial governor of the Philippines, Douglas MacArthur – began a far-reaching campaign to mobilise the US as a whole to forcibly restore Euro-American control over China's economy.20 Whether relative sanity in the US or the extremism of the Lobby itself (in its day almost as powerful ...

... opium trade. (In reality it was American allies in the far East.) Marshall concludes: 'By serving up a steady supply of lurid claims to feed the propaganda mills of professional Cold Warriors and China Lobbyists, Anslinger bought protection against budget cuts, premature retirement, loss of authority to rival agencies, and any weakening of the nation's drug laws. ' BAP sighting Thanks to Corinne Souza who pointed this story out to me. In the Independent on Sunday of 1 September 2013 Yasmin Alibhai Brown wrote the following in a piece called 'The special relationship is over. At long last! ' 'When Thatcher and Reagan were locked in their long embrace, I was selected to join ...

... , from official documentation published by Wikileaks, of one of the American campaigns to destabilise the regime of the late Hugo Chavez.27 When Chavez died there was a deal of discussion of the proposition that maybe the US had induced Chavez's cancer. Much derision was pored on the idea. Of course it is possible, not using chemicals or drugs, which were discussed, but electromagnetic radiation (EMR). (Was anyone monitoring EMR around Chavez?) The US embassy in Moscow was irradiated in the 1960s by the Soviet regime, resulting in the death of at least one member of the staff, and kicking-off the US military's intensive study of the military applications of ...

... – interestingly the Sheriff's Department, not the Dallas Police Department – to control things. 'The plan was to make the murder easy but surround it with illusions and false leads.....[Carlos] Marcello arranged for some of his people to be in Dallas and [Santos] Trafficante contributed some of his contacts in the French drug connection. ' (p . 147) Estes tells us: * Malcolm Wallace knew George de Mohrenschildt and through him Wallace met Oswald and his wife Marina. (p . 151). * Cliff Carter and Wallace knew Jack Ruby. Estes saw Wallace and Ruby together at the Carousel Club. (p . 151) * Malcolm ...

... . The book's author, David Walsh,1 7was a writer who knew just a tad more about cycling and Armstrong than the newly retired spin doctor. Walsh was able to prove then what was last year confirmed by the US authorities and more recently by the disgraced and now much-sued cyclist himself, namely that Armstrong was a regular drugs user who cheated his way to the seven Tour titles of which he has now been stripped. According to Walsh, now chief sports writer at The Sunday Times, the 'open, funny and engaging' man was not above threatening anyone who blew the whistle on his drug- taking. That included Armstrong's British former physical therapist, Emma ...

... western thinking. It is the Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big 148 Winter 2010 business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues. ' A bit of this is true: the BBC certainly supports the human rights culture and multiculturalism. But how could it not do so? These are the official policies at both national and European level, and are supported by the dominant factions of all three major political parties. Nor are these ...